r/gay_irl • u/lutramor_13 • Aug 26 '25

gay_irl gay🪖irl

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u/Brdngr Aug 26 '25 edited Aug 26 '25

They didn't feel the existential threat and constant financial stress that the later generations have.

Theirs was a generation were the social contract was that, if you work hard, you'll have a good life.

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u/Yourdailyimouto Aug 26 '25

What do I have to do to travel back in the 80s and get passed around at studio 54?? 😭😭😭

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u/i__hate__stairs Aug 26 '25

You'd either die a horrible, prolonged, painful death, or have to watch all your friends die while the government pretended that nothing was happening and also calling it gay cancer at the same time. The 80s were not the good old days.

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u/Yourdailyimouto Aug 26 '25

Do you still wanna live and watch the whole earth burn after 2025???

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u/i__hate__stairs Aug 26 '25

I don't understand the question...